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| - | =Overview=
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| - | ''The Steam London game plot began as a mix of characters and their actions within London, which could get confusing. As time passed, a single cohesive plot emerged.''
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| - | Emma Lighton and her athereal partner George Lewinstine boarded the airship [[APF Bohème]] just to get away from their malevolent previous employer, the fearsome Captain Black. The "Boheme" seemed to be on a routine, if shady, courier service, travelling to China to retrieve equipment in exchange for some rare engineering plans. But there turned out to more to the plans than met the eye...and more danger lurking in London than thought possible. Now the crew of the Boheme is caught up in a battle against insidious, otherworldly forces that seek to enslave and destroy the human race. The enemy walks among us and the plot runs deep. But the crew of the Boheme and their allies are among the most talented and courageous personages in the world. Are you willing to join the fight for our dimension?
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| - | == Pre-Boheme Plot==
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| - | Bracer roams the roofs of London while Demetri Rousselle gets very lost and falls a sleep on a bench. Horatio runs from a fire and tries to wake Demetri but it doesn't work. Ajax Callaghan fresh from a bad business meeting demands to know what caused the blaze. Hiram plays cards and sets up a meeting with Chen-yu.
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| - | Geirulf spears apples and Van Ottens watches the fire from above. Demetri wakes shakily as Ajax desides to enter the fire and Scott Coolige tries to drunkenly investigate. Horatio and Demetri try to stop him as Ajax rushes in to the the blaze. Hiram sends the fire brigade and the local boss is replaced.
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| - | Ajax grabs his dead partners love notes to his sweetheart in Liverpool and tools. He makes it out and collapses. Hiram and Chen Yu make a deal for influence and power. Ajax is revived by the power of whiskey and they deside to go to a bar. Horatio leads them to Bucer's Quill. Hiram's boys ham fisted-ly try to find out what caused the fire and almost cause a riot in the bar but after some tenseness they back off.
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| - | Horatio is on a mission to find a certain text. He mentions Moriarty and gets a lesson in how London really works. A Member of Parliament is found dead. Wyatt tries to stir up a revolution. Ajax and Demitri leave to go get what Ajax saved from the fire. Scotland Yard performs an autopsy. Hiram goes for a walk and kills a hired killer.
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| - | Horatio says he is looking for a study of true resurrection undertaken some 2000 years before Christ achieved the same feat. Two time travelers argue and time goes funny for a bit(I think). Demetri knows of Horatio's book and it may be in his own university. Horatio, Scott and Demetri are thrown out of the bar by it's fearful owner. Russians were behind the hired killer and they are old foes of Hiram's. Horatio decides to go to the university for himself. Edward the manager of Bucer's Quill and Demetri fight. Agrippa looks for his lost student and Demetri and Scott go to find Horatio.
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| - | Underwood looks for work. Von Watt chases some one and causes time hiccups. Demetri is suddenly home later he sends out a interesting extract from a diary.
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| - | uPHUV3 I would add something else, of course, but in fact almost everything is mentioned!...
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| - | == The Bohème in Gibraltar ==
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| - | In Gibraltar we picked up Dr. Lakshmi Marleybone-Smythe who needed to go to Calcutta. The captain got a really neat weapon from Hiram, Lilli went shopping and Miss Butcher got zapped in the middle of the night. Lilli, Oliver and Leonard subdued the miscreant that attacked Miss Butcher. He turned out to be Russian but vanished when they tried to get information out of him.
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| - | In the air over North Africa Lakshmi figured out what Lilli was drugged when she came aboard and found something odd about the hair the Russian had left behind. They landed in Cairo Aeroport, dealt with a very scary lift and spread out in to the city.
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| - | == The Bohème in Cairo ==
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| - | This arc stars here [http://brassgoggles.co.uk/bg-forum/index.php?topic=4705.180]
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| - | Oliver and Lilli went to the newsstand. Lilli found out some distressing news from home. While she was taking about going to Austrian consulate they were drugged and taken away to the private museum of Dr. Habib. At the museum they were questioned about the Orb of Nuut, The Obelisk of the Portal and the Casket of Opening of witch they know nothing. With some very quick thinking Oliver with the help of one of Hiram's local agents known has Mr. Umbrella and Henri Rousselle they manage to escape.
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| - | Lakshmi goes to do some shopping in the souk and gets tackled by the tiny inventor Emmaline Lighton and her invisible partner Professor George Lewistine. Emma and George are on the run from a Capitan Hieronymus of the Eastern Star who wanted to do dastardly things with their technology. Lakshmi KOs the man that was following them and gets their whole unbelievable story. She learns that George was disembodied, forced in to the realm of aether in a lab accident and he and Emma have formed a kind of symbiotic relationship. Lilli and the others show up and tell of their adventures. George knows about Orb of Nuut to the surprise of everyone but him. When the rest of the crew leaves Emma goes with them back to the ship while Lakshmi goes to meet the captain.
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| - | Back in London a vampire named Underwood is given the task of steeling the Black Prince's ruby from the State crown in the Tower of London the by Lamont a Changeling in the service of Hiram.
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| - | Captian Hudson is led on wild goose chase and then goes to meet Lakshmi for tea. The Dr. revels Lilli's connection to the Thugee cult and that the hair from the Russian miscreant was artificial. With more questions than they started out with they head back to the ship to find Oliver burned by a spontaneously combusting hair and Emma, Mr. Umbrella and Henri Rousselle all on board.
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| - | Captain Hudson explains they are running behind and will have to miss out on stopping in Lucknow and Mandalay. Emma and Mr. Rousselle join the crew, Mr. Umbrella bullies Lilli around then leaves and her father is reviled to be one of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's top intelligence officials. Lakshmi sets up courier and reminds the captain that they are headed for the tallest, wildest and most pirate-infested mountains in the world. Emma plans engine upgrades and swaps cabins with Lilli who was upset at Mr. Umbrella. Lakshmi has lots of pretty guns, is aristocrat and may be able to call in a favor from some one named Rahmat Saleh.
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| - | George makes a connection between the flaming hair and warehouse arson, Lilli makes shopping lists and Miss Butcher is sure a vast conspiracy is behind it. Emma brings the captain a dead bird with a note, George says something stupid and Mr. Umbrella reappears and is yelled at. Lilli helps a crying Emma and Miss Butcher reveals a pirate attack. We all have fun repelling borders and Leonard is shot but Lakshmi patches him up. Cairo goes to pirate-ey hell around us and we look for a way out.
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| - | The docking arms are removed with lost of care, steam and yelling. They fly out of the airport but Lakshmi's harness fails and she is plucked from the sky by Ben. They all pile back inside and discus what to do when they reach Kabul. Lakshmi gives Emma something to change her hair color so she can hide from Captain Black.
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| - | == The Bohème in Kabul ==
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| - | They land very early in the morning when most of the crew is still asleep. Emma landed the ship while Ben spoke to an old friend. Emma landed the ship, made breakfast and handed off a very volatile shopping list to Ben and Lakshmi. While they explore the market Patrick O'Landery gets invited aboard after Emma mistakes him for one of her employer's men. They are both passionate engineers so they get along well, but Emma keeps George a secret afraid Patrick would think her mad. While they are getting acquainted Lilli gets in a fight with one of the real employer's men and uses a ring to vanish back to her ancestral home. Emma is mightily confused by this, but takes Patrick to the engines where they happily work the day away. Meanwhile, the real supply runner shows up and Emma sends him off after scolding him.
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| - | As Patrick and Emma are working, Fabrice Grecko (A well trained assassin posing as a pilot) and Jack Dervish (her target looking to get to India and save a friend) come to The Bohème to look for a job and passage respectively. At first Patrick is suspicious, but Emma is friendly and invites them inside. They sit and get to know each other when the supplies show up. Disgruntled by his earlier treatment the runner decides to muddle the supplies. Packing the crates like this - oranges, a pair of pants, a large block of soap, engine degreaser, two small containers of volatile chemicals (dangerously close to being knocked over, or crushed), a small barrel of drinking water and a random assortment of bolts and nuts in the bottom, rather than following any normal separations. Seeing that this is going to be a big job she sends Patrick and Miss Grecko on to finish the engine work while she and Mr. Dervish work on cleaning the shipping disaster. While they are separated, Emma and Patrick both ask about the blood stains on their clothes from an earlier run in with a sniper after Jack. Mr.Dervish's answer helps cement his place in Emma's good graces.
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| - | Patrick finishes his work and is very hungry, so Fabrice and Emma make dinner and the secret of George comes out. At first Emma is sure her new friends are going to think she is mad as she tells her story but then she thinks of a way to prove it. Emma rummaged in the pouches of her make shift tool belt finally pulling a small sealed glass tube filled with unknown chemicals and encased in brass bands. It was slightly smaller then her thumb but she treated it like it might explode at any moment. She closed her eyes and pulled a pin. There was a piercing white light that faded in to a cool blue as the reaction stabilized then she removed one of her aetherphones and snapped it in to place near the top of the tube and the other near the bottom. Emma tunes it in to George, unsure if the others can hear him. To her shock and joy they can and for the first time in a very long time she is able to talk to George in public without people looking at her funny. George uses his new found way to communicate to antagonize Patrick and his nickname of "Monkey" is born.
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| - | Ben and Lakshmi finish shopping and go to visit his friend Saeed's family. They get there just in time to delver a baby and have tea.(Not in that order though) They leave for another meeting, but this one isn't nearly as pleasant. Rahmat Saleh controlled most of the criminal element of Kabul and Lakshmi warns Ben that their safety won't be assured during the meeting. They pose as a married couple and sit down to a rather tense negotiation. Through flattery and threats, in equal measures, they get ammunition and a promise of help thought the mountains. As they walk back to the ship Lakshmi reveals her family's criminal roots and Ben speaks of his feelings for the open sky.
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| - | As the crew of the Bohème is waiting for the captain to come back they receive a frantic call from Capitan Linkletter of the ''Æthercutter''. He is on a crash course with their docked ship and he has no way of steering. Emma launches the ship to save them all, but feels very guilty because she is technically stealing the ship. Thankfully they are able to bring both ships in safely, even if they do get yelled at by some very angry people at the port authority. Emma is able to talk them out of fines, but they still aren't happy.
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| - | Captain Hudson and Lakshmi arrive back just as dinner is being served. Emma falls all over herself trying to apologize for her actions, but the captain forgives her straight away. As they meet the new crew, Mr. Dyke & Kabuki, who had been mentioned in a letter sent by carrier pigeon back in Cairo, come stand at the bottom of the gangplank. After a whirlwind of introductions George tells the Captain of their visitors. The doctor accompanies him to listen to Dyke & Kabuki's accusations of a traitor aboard the ship. Once inside they revealed themselves to be something other than the gentleman they seamed. They first insinuated that Lakshmi was the traitor and then held her at gunpoint. They want the Bohème to abandon it's mission to china.
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| - | While the Captain is dealing with the visitors Emma is confronted by a bit of her past. Aether generator build 12 was supposed to bring George back from his exile in the aether but has a hidden devious purpose of creasing a way for people to enter the aether to spy undetectably anywhere in the world. Emma is faced with a hard choice, take away George's best hope to keep the world safe or keep them to help George despite the risks. In the end she gives half of the plans to Patrick trusting him to keep them safe.
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| - | Alerted to the trouble from the visitors Emma and Patrick arm themselves and head for the locked lounge door. With a bit of chemistry they brake down the door and free Lakshmi. Dyke & Kabuki are tied up and seem to be calm but still unwilling to answer questions. Patrick's long studies in the ways of pirate interrogations become obvious as he slips in to a persona and threatens them. Emma with her own attempts at acting joins him in the questioning.
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| - | Using George to scope out the two men Emma finds Russian tattoos and a bomb hidden in plane sight. After dealing with the bomb Emma confronts them about their employers. Instead of talking they evaporate like ice in hot water. Stunned by the inhuman nature of their captives everyone is rightfully confused when twins of the melted men show up along with some heavily armed porters. A brief gunfight ensues where Emma fires a weapon for the first time. They have been set up has Russian invaders.
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| - | They meet the "Real" Dyke & Kabuki who state that they were only trying to warn the crew about Lilli but are too late. At first Emma with her new red hair is mistaken for her but Kabuki states that she can't be the same woman in a rather offensive way. Emma sends them off rather angrily and the Boheme takes off before it can get in any more trouble.
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| - | Nathanial Walker, owner of Walker's books, on Tinkers Row, is troubled. Life was simple before, business was steady, friends were plentiful and he had all he wanted. When Miss Lighton came to inquire about his add in the paper for the office above his shop he thought she was odd, but nice and rented it to her on the spot. Things were going well until she left one evening and never came back. Now it looks like that opened a large can of worms because he caught someone braking into her empty office whom vanished into thin air. Nathanial asks every scientist and detective he could find for answers but none of them could help him. Finally, he decides to go to a Mr. Thomas Taylor for help with the problem of the vanishing man.
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| - | After telling his story to Mr. Taylor they both go back to the scene if the crime to investigate. After answering Trip's questions he discovered the folly of trusting strangers. Thomas William Taylor the Third (Trip) turned out to be the thief himself. He left Nathanial paralyzed and bleeding on the floor as he stole Miss Lighton's designs for an aether generator. When he finally regained use of his body he unleashes the mad fury of Tinkers row on Taylor and runs him out of town.
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| - | Weeks later, when Nate is healing from his wounds and seeing Trip's fading face in his nightmares, a Charles Tayle appears like a demon summoned by his bloody dreams and offers the chance to chase Trip. Nate accepts and they ready his airship the Coraline for launch. Nate provides the best weaponry Tinkers row has to offer and Charles teaches him how to fly the ship.
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| - | Nate and Charles are not a good fit and argue often but their biggest argument ends in Nate drugging Charles and stealing his ship. Leaving Charles stranded, Nate goes after Trip with blood on his mind. With only revenge to guide him Nate starts slipping out of touch with realty. Soon he eats little, sleeps less and thinks only of killing Trip. Madness makes him strong and relentless; he only stops briefly in Kabul to take on a crew and then presses on.
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| - | Meanwhile Trip safe aboard his sisters ship is trying to make use of the plans he stole but they are explosively flawed. After a pile of attempts he realizes that the only way he his ever going to get the thing to work is to find the inventor herself and get her to divulge how to make a working model. In her notes he finds her picture and decides to charm the answers out of her the problem is that she has vanished off the face of the earth. His sisters ship is bound for china so he will start his search there.
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| - | As the Bohème flew in to the calm twilight mountains Emma and Patrick settle down for a quiet evening while Lakshmi and Ben wander off to look at the supplies Rahmat Saleh provided them with. Emma tells bittersweet stories of of her past aboard The Star and finds that Patrick had worked under Captain Black as well. As they talk Emma realizes that she has a lot to learn about weapons and protecting herself. As she and Patrick are disguising making a raygun that can disrupt communications over a distance. George came in with devastating news. Black had found them and his ship was closing in.Emma knowing that her bad eyesight would make her more of a liability than an asset in the coming battle decides to let George take possession of her body.
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| - | After a rather tense conversion George and Patrick open fire on The Star. Captain Black has pulled his ship along side the Bohème and is trying to disable it and then send baskets full of borders to overwhelm the defenders. George and Patrick stop most of the heavy chain shot before it can reach the ship but the battery powering George's possession sputters distracting him at the worst possible moment. Three shots hit the side of the ship one bounces off the hull, another crashes in to the room were the Captain and the Doctor are arming themselves and the final one crashes in to the engine room completely destroying one of the aether stacks and cutting power to the ship.
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| - | Seeing the lights flicker off Black changes from chain shot to boarding harpoons. George and Patrick using some of Emma's inventions for purposes they were never meant for manage to hold them off long enough for Lakshmi to outfit herself with an extra set of clockwork limbs. They take over defense of the ship while Patrick and George rush off to do emergency repairs. Ben is left with Patrick's overpowered aether cannon which he has no idea how to use while Black takes advantage of the brake in fire to send over three baskets of borders. They blast one but the other two make it to the ship and bust their way inside.
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| - | Meanwhile Patrick and George get the engines up and running but the aether stacks are in sorry shape. The best they can to is rig one to run at 70%. The lights come back up but they are dim and flickering, shadowing more than they reveal. Patrick takes pride routing out a border that was lurking in the dark but George's time is running out. As he is forced from Emma's body he makes Patrick promise to take care of her. It is the first time he ever referred to Patrick by anything other than Monkey. Emma's body collapses as George is pushed out of it but some rather foul fluid called aethric bitters and Emma is back, if a bit wobbley. They decide to go and make a stand with Ben and Lakshmi but as they go to leave the room heavy footsteps from outside stop them in their tracks. The door is flung open to reveal a rather menacing man with metal claws for hands. As Patrick readies his gun unsure if he can beat him he steps aside to reveal an even more dangerous opponent Capt.Hieronymus Black himself.
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| - | She got hit for her efforts and Black advanced on her sword drawn to rain down brutal punishment for her defiance. Patrick brought his own sword in to block the blow nearly faltering at first but then he remembers how George asked him to protect her and gains resolve from his promise. They fight swords glittering in the darkness as Emma hovers near tears feeling betrayed and useless trying to find some way to help Patrick. Emma finds her aetheric batteries as she is backed in to a corner by the man with the metal claws. Using their first blast of harsh white light she blinds the attackers making it possible for Patrick to shoot the man with the claws and wound Black bad enough to force him to retreat. The room fills with pirates and Patrick is bleeding badly. Emma using a slapped together aetheric sword manged to make the pirates flee fearing for their lives. Patrick collapses from blood loss and Emma runs off in a panic to find Lakshmi fearing she may already be to late.
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| - | Black recovers from his failed attack on the Boheme and plans a trap in china. Emma and Patrick stay up late planing out repairs, making parts lists and gossiping. Jen wakes early the next morning and watches as they land. George tricks Emma in to wakening up and she rushes out to help the captain only to be told she is under arrest for six murders. Emma is flabbergasted and believes it to be a large misunderstanding. Patrick tried to present evidence to clear her name but is shot instead. Emma is dragged off as Jen rushes to Patrick's side.
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| - | -Later they rendevous with Charles and Trip. They dock the ships together for the night. Trip and Emma help Elisha reattach his limbs. In the morning, Charles is gone, having drugged them all and having arrested Trip. Charles sets off to London with Trip, who attempts to escape multiple times but is always foiled by Charles.
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| - | -The Boheme tries to follow, but is is revealed that Charles sabotaged the engine. While the Boheme is immobilized, Black takes this as the opportunity to attack. However, his assault is foiled by the intervention of the privateer ship ''Angelus'' and it's Captain Adriana. The fight ends when Emma sabotages the Eastern Star, sending it speeding backwards.
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| - | -The Angelus helps repair the Boheme. Both ships head out for London, but must stop for fuel in Rome.
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| - | == The Bohème in Rome ==
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| - | -The Boheme makes a short stop in Rome.
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| - | -Emma and Jen are nearly immediatly arrested again - it is revealed Charles has agents in most major cities.
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| - | -Elisha goes to stage a jailbreak and runs into a crew member of his ship. It is revealed his ship is actually in London.
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| - | -Emma manages to escape by herself - the Boheme leaves Rome before more trouble can occour.
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| - | == The Bohème in York==
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| - | -Patrick contacts his old ship, the ''Hattori Hanzo''. Elisha contacts his ship, the ''Steel Breeze''. The Boheme, Angelus, Hattori Hanzo and Steel Breeze plan to meet in York.
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| - | -When they arrive in York, Charles has an army of police waiting.
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| - | -Also waiting is a Dr. Cross, who seems to want the organs of a crew member of the Angelus.
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| - | -The military and police hesitate to destroy the ships, the head officer, Upjohn, not trusting Charles. Charles orders the Secret Service Black Ships to do the job and travels to York to deal with the problem personally.
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| - | -The Angelus, Boheme, Hattori Hanzo and Steel Breeze fight and defeat the Black Ships. Upjohn knocks Charles out and handcuffs him to a chair. (Charles later escapes and returns to London)
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| - | -The Black Ships self destruct while Trip manages to escape and make his way onboard the Hattori Hanzo.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Hudson meets an accomplish of Hiram and recieves the plans in return.
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| - | -During the fight, Patrick is wounded and Jen has to use some of her life to save him.
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| - | -Jen slips into a coma due to an overuse of her powers.
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| - | -The Hanzo starts to be boarded by the military but breaks off, the Hanzo, Angelus and Boheme fleeing west.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Captain Canning tells Elisha he intends to go to Oslo, then back to Vancouver. It is revealed the Steel Breeze may become a military ship, losing privateer status. Elisha declines the offer of a rescue and decides to help the Boheme attain safety. Elisha returns to the Boheme and briefly vists the Hanzo to retrieve Trip
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| - | -The crew of the Boheme attempt to build a scientific device and use George to bring Jen back, however the machine will not be built in time. Patrick attempts to use himself in place of the device.
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| - | -Patrick revives Jen, but is nearly killed in the process, only being saved by a swift intervention by Elisha. Various members of the crew are affected in various ways by the powerful mental feedback, the full nature of which is still unknown. Effects seen include a probable mental connection between Jen and Patrick, a mainifestation of Patrick in Elisha's mechanical hand and a manifestation of George in a corporal form. Hudson enters to inform the crew of their landing in Dublin.
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| - | == The Bohème in Dublin ==
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| - | -The crew are interrupted by a disturbance in the hold, saving Trip from having to admit any misdeeds to Emma
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| - | -In the hold they find that Nate, affected by their experiment, has taken control of the bodies of Ms. Butcher and Oliver. They are now mere extensions of Nate's body.
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| - | -All of Nate's bodies escape, injuring Dr. Marleybone-Smythe in the process.
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| - | -The Doctor is left in Dublin to recover and the Boheme turns around to head to London.
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| - | -Jen and Patrick begin to work on occult and engineering projects together, revealing the mental connection that has emerged.
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| - | -Trip, George and Emma experiment further with aether, trying to find a way to render the plans for Maxwell's Demon intangible and thus unattainable by anyone but George
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| - | == The Boheme Returned to London ==
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| - | -The Boheme lands in a less official dock in London
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| - | -Black is revealed to be in London, staying with Russian agents, including the twisted Viktor. H. Erebus.
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| - | -Nate and his stolen bodies make their way by boat to London
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| - | - Insepctor Upjohn returns to his house in London
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| - | -Charles has a meeting with Patrick's occult-obsessed older brother, Brian, who states his wish to apprehend the Boheme
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| - | -Hiram recieves the package from Hudson
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| - | -Elsewhere, the ''Angelus'' and ''Hattori Hanzo'' manage to draw off most of the ships that were hunting for the Boheme. They split up and head away from London to confuse persuers. In Northern Russia, Captain Canning is about to investigate a mysterious Russian military project, when he is interrupted by the news that all Vancouver Air Privateer licenses are to be revoked.
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| - | -Patrick and Jen continue their technomanic research
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| - | -Charles and Brian briefly fight due to a lack of trust. Brain gains the upper hand, for the moment and Charles agrees to let Brian help.
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| - | -Elisha recieves a letter from Canning detailing the cancellation of all Privateer licenses. Elisha rejects an offer to work with the military, wishing to remain independent, if illegal, essentially a vigilante. He takes the title of the Vancouver Air Privateer.
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| - | -Emma completes the matter transmitter. The plans are the first test subject and are successfully turned aetheral and left in the safekeeping of George.
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| - | -The group, except the Captain, all go to Tinker's Row to investigate. Patrick and Jen interview Avihs, an old friend of Patrick's, who reveals the existance of Brian O'Landry.
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| - | | + | |
| - | -Meanwhile, Emma, Trip and George investigate Emma's old apartment and the shop below it. The shop-boy, Sam, helps them, but appears to not be all human...
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| - | -Sam signals for a group of Black's men to enter the shop. Elisha, however, was standing guard outside and followed them in. Emma and Trip fight a suddenly aggressive Sam, while Elisha quickly dispatches the assassins downstairs.
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| - | -Black himself enters the shop, only to be help at gunpoint by Elisha. Emma and Trip kill the creature pretending to be Sam and with the aid of a young tramp, escape by an upstairs window. Once outside, George instructs Elisha how to set off a trap within the shop and escape. The tramp agrees to lead them to the place he last saw Sam. Black realizes where Emma went and begins to follow her.
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| - | -Brian directly attacks Tinker's Row, starting the Tinker's Row Massacre, where he kills multiple innocents. Patrick and Jen retreat to a safehouse, a brothel run by a Ms. Arachne.
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| - | -George investigates the building where Sam dissapeared. It is revealed to be run by some sort of alien creatures, who are running a biological weapons and cloning operation. Shaken, George, Trip, Emma and Elisha make their way back to the Boheme, only to be halted by a small Russian digging machine in the very streets of London. Elisha attacks the machine, killing the pilot, but knocking it and himself into the sewers.
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| - | -Jen senses Brian's nearing prescence. She, with the help of Patrick, begins a intense magical duel with the accomplished Blood Mage. Jen manifests an extremly powerful form of White Magic and manages to beat off Brian. After the fight, Patrick momentarily connects with the machines in Tinker's row - including the biological weapon Viktor has set up in the sewers of London. Patrick and Jen enter the sewers to locate the machine.
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| - | -Meanwhile, the tramp that had been guiding Emma is revealed to be one of the creatures. It attacks Emma while Trip tries desperatly to rescue her.
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| - | -Patrick and Jen are ambushed by Vicktor himself. Before he can kill them, Elisha ambushes ''him'' and kills his agents. Viktor holds Patrick and Jen hostage and Elisha attempts to negotiate with him. He releases them, but decides to kill Elisha anyways. Before he can fire, Elisha uses his mechanical hand to smash the pumping system on the machine. Viktor escapes, realizing that the machine is now dispersing it's gases into the sewers. Elisha follows, but begins to inhale some of the gas, damaging his lungs. Jen performs a basic healing on Elisha, but he is still too weak to fight.
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| - | -Elisha returns to the Boheme and contacts an engineer friend of his. Together, they rig up a respirator and generator system for Elisha, allowing him to breath during rigorous activities and increasing his combat capabilities.
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| - | -George and Trip manage to kill the creature attacking Emma. Emma is still in shock, so George and Trip take her and begin to return to the Boheme, pursued by more of the creatures in human form.
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| - | -Brian, still too weak to fight Jen and Patrick directly, summons a demon which attacks them shortly after they encounter Elisha. They begin to use magical force against the creature.
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| - | -Elisha, now with refreshed lungs and repowered limbs, attacks and disperses the creatures attacking George and Trip. Trip returns Emma to the Boheme. George goes directly to help Patrick and Jen banish the Demon. Jen manages to successfully banish the demon. All of the crew retreat to the Boheme.
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| - | -Charles phones the chief of police and claims that Trip caused the Tinker's Row Massacre instead of Brian.
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| - | -Viktor sends out Black once again to hunt down Emma.
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| - | -The crew momentarily rests on the Boheme. Jen and George calm Emma down. Elisha ponders the situation and voices his concerns and questions to the Captain. The crew rests for the night.
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| - | -Patrick has uncomfortable dreams and awakes in the middle of the night. He stays awake the rest of the night fueled by coffee and building automatons, including a mechanical dog.
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| - | -The next morning, Elisha recieves a letter at breakfast, instructing him to meet a Lord Woolsley and to bring Emma. Emma, Trip and Elisha go to Lord Woolsley's Manor. The Lord reveals a lot about the plans and the creatures they have been fighting. The plans were actually made by Emma's grandfather, who was help captive four years ago by the creatures in Alaska. The creatures need a hybrid version of their engines that could work on Earth. Woolsley's part of the Secret Service attempted a rescue (With the help of local privateers, including a younger Elisha, this being the mission in which he lost his limbs). Emma's grandfather was dead by the time they arrived. They took the plans, but the airship carrying them was destroyed. The plans only emerged later, in London, under the ownership of Hiram, who gave them to Ben Hudson, who gave them to Emma. It is revealed that the creatures have control of most of the Russian government, and parts of the British Government. The British Secret Service is in a state of chaos, as it fights a secret war against itself.
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| - | -Woolsley agrees to help them, but is interrupted and killed by Captain Black, who is foiled by Trip in his attempt to kidnap Emma.. Emma, Elisha and Trip make their way make to the Boheme. They are stopped by the police, but escape in the chaos when Black and his agents and pirates run into the police. Nate also appears and attempts to stop them, but is flung off the dock by an impatient Elisha.
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| - | -The Boheme takes off. Black attempts to grab onto the side of the ship, but is knocked off by Patrick's new mechanical puppy, who he has dubbed "Scraps".
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| - | -The crew agree to set course to Boston to interview Emma's parents.
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| - | -Patrick creates the detection goggles and the heat rounds, giving the crew their first effective means of combating the creatures
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| - | -Meanwhile, Charles reflects on his first experiences with Time Travel. Remembering Trip's involvment in illegal time travel, he obtains a permit to bring Trip in to the Time Police personally, meaning he will be the only person after Trip at the moment.
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| - | ==The Boheme in Boston==
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| - | -The Boheme lands in Boston and the crew disembark and go to the Lighton's house.
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| - | -Once there, Emma's mother mistakes Trip for George, revealing that she recieved a letter that said that George intended to marry Emma.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Ivo Van Cuyk arrives in London, looking for work.
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| - | -After some awkward moments, Emma is able to explain the situation to her parents
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| - | -Her parents reveal a connection between her, her grandfather and Lord Woolsley
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| - | -A package, myserteriously from Lord Woolsley, arrives, containing documents in an alien script - Emma's parents reveal the key to breaking the code is within the mechanisms of a clock, carried by Emma's brother, Walter, who is on a boat somewhere near Florida
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| - | -At this moment, George spots Black closing on the house. Emma's parents flee the house and the crew leave to make their way back to the Boheme.
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| - | -Black and his crew of humans and creatures catch up to and confront the crew of the Boheme. Elisha holds of the majority of the creatures with the new heat rounds while the rest of Black's crew chase Emma. The crew of the Boheme fight Black and some newly arrived creatures, revealing that Black has some form of shielding against their weapons. However, Trip uses a device to quickly evacuate them to the Boheme, where they reunite with Elisha and take off for Florida.
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| - | -As the Boheme heads to Florida, Emma confronts George about the letter he sent to her parents, claiming he was to marry her. George leaves her, but begins to realize that he still loves her, despite her romance with Trip.
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| - | -Before the Boheme can reach Florida, Charles attacks from a submarine, with Brian O'Landry as well. The Black Service men quickly capture Trip and retreat to the submarine, vanishing before the Boheme can do anything.
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| - | -Brian remains on the Boheme to kill Patrick and Jen. Elisha attempts to stop him but is beaten easily by Brian's magic. Brian begins to strangle Jen and Patrick is forced to shoot his brother, putting him on the brink of death and permenantly crippled.
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| - | -Despite protests by other crew members, Patrick takes Brian's conciousness, but not his memories of evil deeds and places them in a new, artificial body. The result is named Cain.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Brian's former demon-slave confronts Charles, seeking vengeance for Brian's "death". Charles directs the creatures towards Russia. On reaching Russia, the blood-demon reveals itself to the Tsar. The Tsar and his ministers then reveal that they are the alien creatures and agree to an alliance with the blood-demon, now known as Amon.
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| - | ==The Boheme in Florida==
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| - | -George spots the boat that Walter, Emma's brother, works on. The crew of the Boheme descend to the boat.
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| - | -Walter gives Emma the clock, the key to decoding the papers.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Jen collapses on the deck and sleeps, mentally and physically exhausted from her encounters with Brian.
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| - | -Back in London, Charles puts Trip on trial. The jury finds him guilty and he is sentenced to hang the next day.
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| - | -In Florida, Black manages to catch up to the Boheme and Walter's boat at sunset. He makes a surprise attack, disabling the Boheme and forcing it to crash in the Florida swamp.
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| - | -Captain Hudson is alone on the Boheme. He surveys the damages and determines he will need to find civilization and parts if he has any hopes of repairing his airship.
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| - | -Black and his men then descend to the boat and paralyze Walter and Emma, kidnapping Emma and taking her onboard the Star.
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| - | -Elisha manges to get Jen and the clock safely into the lifeboat. Patrick, Cain, Scraps and Walter also make it to the lifeboat, while Black begins to bomb the boat. Elisha is knocked into the water before he can reach the lifeboat. He washes ashore and cannot see the lifeboat or wreckage of Walter's boat. He decides to look for the nearest town.
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| - | -Trip is taken to the Time Court by Charles, who seeks to punish Trip at the highest level. However, before Trip can be prosecuted, a mysterious doctor arrives and proves that Trip is infact the inventor of Time-Travel - thus he cannot be executed or the entire Time Court would cease to exist. Out of reverence for the first Time-Traveller, the court ejects Charles and sends Trip back to the Boheme, where he meets Elisha.
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| - | -With the help of Cain and Scraps, Jen and Patrick find the Boheme as well. Soon George appears to Jen and informs the crew that Black has Emma in New Orleans. At that moment, Captain Hudson arrives with some locals and spare parts.
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| - | -Patrick uses the parts and his command of engineering and magic to repair the crippled Boheme.
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| - | -The Boheme takes off, making the short flight west to New Orleans
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| - | ==The Boheme in New Orleans==
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| - | -George reveals to Emma that the Boheme and it's crew are very much alive. She instructs him on how to damage the engines of the Eastern Star, setting out the first stages of an eventual rescue attempt.
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| - | -The crew of the Boheme prepare for a rescue. Emma is taken to the engines by Black to repair them, but leaves a concotion of dangerous chemicals in her room.
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| - | -George communicates with Jen and reveals where the Eastern Start is concealed.
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| - | -Trip, George, Patrick and Jen move in and attack the Star from the ground, while Elisha and Hudson move the Boheme directly over the Star, preventing possible takeoff.
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| - | -Patrick and Jen catch up to Black. Patrick fights Black while Jen releases Emma - Jen then uses her sword to slash the gasbag of the Star.
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| - | -Trip attempts to help Patrick defeat Black, but his alien tech deflects their best ranged attack. At this point, the chemicals burst into flame, causing combustion and an explosion in the engine room.
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| - | -Elisha lands on what is left of the deck of the Star and easily dispatches the crew. During the battle, a nearby levee is damaged, flooding the area around the severely damaged Star.
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| - | -After the explosion, Black is about to finish off a weakened Patrick and Trip. Emma, however, rushes and stabs him with a dagger, bypassing his shields and finally killing him.
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| - | -The Eastern Star begins to sink into the swamp. Elisha appears from a hole blown in the deck during his fight and helps the rest of the crew escape the hull, which is rapidly filling with water.
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| - | -As the crew makes it safely back to the Boheme, the burning wreck of the Star is fully flooded and sucked down into the swamp, dissapearing and taking with it the corpse of Captain Black.
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| - | -After Emma recovers from the shock of killing Black, she decides the crew should dine in New Orleans as a celebration of their freedom from the shadow of Black.
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| - | -Emma, with a low alchohol tolerance, becomes quickly inebriated. She begins drawing strange drawings on the tablecloth, and uses a crude catapult to bombard the other diners with food.
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| - | -One of the diners hit with food is Eleanor Jane Townsend-Armistead. She approaches the table and is somehow able to see George, who she recognizes from London. She accompanies most of the crew back to the ship so she can catch up with George. (As well, the crew decides to take Emma back before she can drink any more alcohol.). Jen and Patrick stay behind so they can see the city together.
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| - | -On the Boheme, Ella outlines what has happened to her since George last saw her and George theorizes as to how she can see him as Emma finally falls asleep. Together alone at last, Jen and Patrick explore New Orleans.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Nate boards an airship headed for South America, having been picked up as a new project by the creatures. To increase his effectiveness as a weapon, the creatures have Viktor H. Erebus fit Nate with a device by which he can bring even more people into his conciousness.
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| - | -The blood demon Amon stalks Jen and Patrick in New Orleans. They lose it, only to be attacked when they are back on the Boheme.
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| - | -Amon abducts Jen, only to be defeated by Patrick who assembles an ornithopter.
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| - | -Captain Hudson decides to take-off, to escape any more threats in New Orleans, forcing Ella to remain on the Boheme.
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| - | -Ella and George deduce that Ella was also affected by the incident that sent George to the aether, allowing Ella to see George. George relates all the events to occour to him since he was sent to the aether.
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| - | -Emma awakes and requires medicine from Jen for her potent hangover.
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| - | -Meanwhile, in London, Charles has a frightening vision of Brian. Concerned he contacts the Boheme, being answered by Elisha, to ask them for some answers. Elisha and Captain Hudson do not fully trust Charles and lay out some strict conditions if he wishes to meet with the Boheme.
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| - | -Emma, Jen and Patrick begin to activate the clock. The "clock" activates, giving the crew members vivid visions of the creatures fighting another alien race. The clock also causes the diary to reveal a map with coordinates.
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| - | -The clock affects Emma, causing her to hear and speak the dead language used in the diary. Jen and Patrick attempt to communicate with her using a mental connection.
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| - | -Charles lands on the Boheme and is angrily accosted by most of the crew, still angry for his planned execution of Trip.
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| - | -Charles questions them about the whereabouts of Brian and attacks Cain when he appears, sensing Brian's presence. Trip proceeds to smack Charles over the head with his pistol, rendering him unconcious
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| - | -Elisha and Hudson prepare to put Charles back on his ship - however Elisha notices that Charles' aid has been replaced by a cold one., which Jen kills with an incendiary round. Charles remains on the Boheme as a hostage and Emma sabotages his ship in case the remaining crew attempt anything.
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| - | -The ships then land in a secluded area of South America
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| - | ==The Boheme at the Ancient Temple==
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| - | -Charles's crew is forced to keep the airships safe. The crew of the Boheme and Charles locate and raise the tomb using Patrick's technomancy, before entering.
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| - | -The crew makes their way down through the temple, despite the traps and Charles' protests. Elisha explains Charles, the Russians and the Cold Ones to Ella.
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| - | -Cain takes a forking path in the tomb, discovering an ancient, deactivated and damaged female construct, the last sign of the Temple's makers. Cain names her Angel
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| - | -Meanwhile, Nate subdues the minds of a number of people in the nearby town. With a battalion of bodies, he converges on the tomb.
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| - | -In the jungle, Nate encounters Amon, who had followed Jen and Patrick. Amon and Nate agree to help each other eradicate the crew of the Boheme, except for Emma and Jen.
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| - | -The group takes Angel and reached the central chamber, but Nate and Amon are close behind.
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| - | -Amon, Nate and the crew battle in the final chamber while Cain activates the mechanism. Nate attempts to stop Cain, but is foiled by Angel's warning and has his hand damaged in the mechanism. In pain, he is knocked out by Jen.
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| - | -Ella, Angel, Patrick and Jen managed to drive Amon off, although Ella is badly burnt in the attack.
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| - | -Emma and Patrick activate and take the mechanism, a compound of all the memory of the temple.
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| - | -Jen heals Ella and George and Emma sever Nate's tie to his other bodies, who Patrick convinces to leave the temple. The crew leaves the temple, letting the comotose Nate remain behind where he can do no harm.
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| - | -Once outside, Patrick uses his technomancy to repair Angel.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Viktor arrives in the jungle. He kills all the Service Agents, who had set out into the jungle looking for Charles. He heads for the tomb.
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| - | -The crew returns to the Boheme. Emma and Jen finihs repairing and rejuvinating Angel. Patrick performs an extensive modification on Cain, making him appear virtually lifelike.
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| - | -Patrick reveals the mechanism told him to go to Russia. He muses that the Boheme will need much more in the way of reinforcements if the mission is to succeed. He and the other members of the crew suggest recruitment possibilities, despite protests about the plan from Charles.
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| - | -Angel and Cain begin to bond, while Emma remembers that Black kept a good amount of stolen money in a shady bank in Switzerland.
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| - | -Meanwhile Viktor arrives at the temple and descends to the central chamber. He takes a sample of Nate's aether virus, but leaves Nate where he is. Back at the Boheme, Captain Hudson takes off.
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| - | -Emma and Patrick discover that Angel can be powered by certain herbs in water, making tea a usuable fuel source. Cain and Angel have lunch together and Angel begins to learn her first steps to working with humans, while the Boheme crosses the Atlantic.
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| - | ==The Boheme in Switzerland==
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| - | -Not long after reaching the Alps, Amon catches up to the Boheme and attacks again, smashing into the galley. Angel confronts him and the two battle.
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| - | -Elisha and Charles rush across the deck to reach the galley. On the deck, Elisha noticed a Russian airship laden with cold-ones. Charles goes to Patrick to recieve weapons while Elisha and Trip begin firing at the advancing cold ones.
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| - | -Angel manages to best Amon, however the demon-ship then impacts the Boheme, entrapping it with tentacles and immobilizing it.
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| - | -The crew attacks, but the enemy ship appears to be shielded. Charles attacks the ship by himself, destroying the shield and a good part of the ship, but knocking himself off the Boheme and falling to the Alps below, breaking his leg in the process.
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| - | -The remaining part of the ship, controlled by it's "captain" clings to the Boheme and tries to kill Elisha and Trip. Cain sends them below decks and confronts the creature directly, altough the hull is breached and Elisha and Trip are attacked by more tentacles. Angel follows after Cain to help him. Elisha manages to reach the deck, but looses sight of Trip, who is pulled below the two ships.
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| - | -The cold one captain attacks Angel and Cain, destroying what was left of his ship and revealing itself as the massive monstrosity it is. The crew desperately fight it's tentacles. Finally, Angel drops Cain towards the captain and Cain destroys it, only being narrowly saved from falled by removing his arm and holding it for Angel.
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| - | -The crew work to recover from the devastating attack. Emma, Ella, Jen and Patrick help repair Angel and Cain. Elisha works to build a gas helm to help in future combat, but begins to wonder where Trip is. Trip has actually fallen from the Boheme during the fight.
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| - | -Admiral Horace Bicker of the HMS Malleus arrives with a dubious crew and offers assistance to the damaged Boheme.
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| - | -Patrick and Horace have heard of each other and get off to a cordial start, while Emma is distraught to learn that Trip has dissapeared again. Horace agrees to help restock and repair the Boheme.
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| - | -Angel and Cain connect some more after they have been repaired, while the rest of the crew helps Horace move supplies.
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| - | -On the ground, Trip realizes he has a piece of shrapnel stuck in his eye. His attempts to remove results in his pulling the entire eye out. He stumbles around and collapses, being found by Charles. Charles doesn't kill Trip, though he disarms him. Charles then contemplates setting up some form of shelter.
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| - | -Elisha decides to remain in the area to recover Trip and possibly Charles while the rest of the crew hurry on the bank job, hopefully recruiting Horace to help. Emma goes to Horace to negotiate.
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| - | -Elisha descends from the Boheme and goes to a town he knows in the area. From there he readies himself and heads out into the snow to search for the lost crew members, who he will return with to the town, then meet up with the rest of the crew.
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| - | -Jen talks with Patrick, concerned that Cain may have memories of Brian, having mentioned the name. Patrick defends Cain vigourously.
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| - | -Emma makes her case to Horace, while George comforts a shaken Ella. Angel experiments with the bath again while teasing Cain.
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| - | -Charles finds a cave and manages to drag Trip there and light a fire.
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| - | -Patrick gives Angel hair and she meets scraps, while Ella sleeps.
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| - | -Meanwhile, Elisha discovers wreckage from the airship they just destroyed. He determines to follow it to locate where Trip fell. He comes upon strange, bird-like creatures clearing up the cold ones from the wreckage. They reveal the connection between the cold ones and Angel's race and point Elisha on the path to Trip.
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| - | -Patrick mentions Christmas to Angel, who asks if Patrick can make more constructs like her. After admitting his inability to do so, Angel is distraught - thus Patrick sneaks into Emma's room and takes some small belongings to give to Angel as presents to cheer her up.
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| - | -Back in the Alps, Dalgranzo Gelt is stuck in the snow. He descends to reach a cave to shelter in, but stumbles upon the one where Trip and Charles are sheltering.
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| - | -The crew of the Boheme celebrate Christmas while explaining it to Angel, with gingerbread, eggnog and even a visit from "Sandy Claws." Meanwhile, Gelt and Elisha manage to drive off the cold ones and get Trip and Charles to safety. Elisha takes Trip and Charles to a doctor and pays for reconstructive surgery as a Christmas gift. While he waits, he makes an offer to explain the cold ones to Gelt.
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| - | -Elisha's messenger drone reaches the Boheme and Patrick and Jen descend in an airboat to pick up the lost crew. However, the Cold Ones attack the engineer town, which goes into a lockdown, threatening to trap them inside. Gelt is forced to come along to escape. While the Cold Ones are trapped and killed, the Demon Amon manages to escape.
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| - | -Amon attacks the airboat, knocking it over onto the Boheme and trapping in it under it except for Elisha. Elisha battles Amon until the demon severs his respirator. Hudson arrives and frees the trapped crew while Elisha is finally knocked out by Amon.
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| - | -Patrick rushes Amon, only to be swiftly defeated and have his arm severed. At that moment Cain and Angel appear, healing Patrick and Elisha and using their combined power to banish Amon for good.
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| - | -The crew recovers and rests. The Cold One Queen in St. Petersburg orders a new wave of airships to attack the Boheme.
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| - | -Emma manages to construct a device that allows George to manifest in human form. As the crew eats cookies and tea, Emma plans how they can use George to rob the bank.
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| - | -At that moment, a squadron of Hell Galleons attacks the Boheme, using gliders to land Cold Ones on the deck, including walker tanks and brutes.
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| - | -Jen, Emma, Patrick, and George, fight the cold ones on the deck. Elisha and Ella hold out in the lounge, Trip and Charles clear the loading bay, Angel and Cain handle the engine room, while Gelt and Hudson keep the steering room safe. George discovers how to use his new powers to effectively combat the cold ones.
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| - | -As the deck is cleared, the galleons begin to close in and members of the crew man the deck guns. Patrick begins to disable the boarding claws and destroy the galleons. As one galleon is destroyed, it unleashed a Wyrm, which swoops below the Boheme and burrows into the hull, attacking Elisha and Ella.
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| - | -As the Wyrms attack, Emma realizes she has the power to cause fear in them, holding off their attacks for awhile. Elisha kills a worm below decks with the help of Ella. Patrick kills another outside.
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| - | -Patrick hijacks a tank and holds off the claws of an approaching galleon using his technomancy, using them to kill another wyrm.
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| - | -Elisha dispatches the last wyrm, crashing it into the steering room before crippling it's wings and knocking it overboard.
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| - | -The commodre of the ship attacks, flying in the air to engage Angel, while the captain of one of the galleons holds on to the back of the Boheme and begins to tear the ship apart.
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| - | -The crew manages to dispose of the captain. Cain slays the Thirteenth Commodore and Angel and Jen cause a bloom of plant life on the ship, keeping it together. Emma is taken inside to recover from serious wounds.
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| - | -In St. Petersburg, the Tsar - the First Commodore, holds a meeting with his Second and Third Commodores, Father Niyazov and Viktor Erebus.
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| - | -The Boheme is nearly over the bank. The crews rests again as they plan for the robbery.
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| - | -Patrick modifies the tank he took to grow wings. Trip angrily accosts George on the deck, worried about the damage Emma sustained. Elisha moves in to break up the fight while Jen and Ella tend to Emma.
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| - | -Patrick gives Cain some money and Cain and Angel go shopping below.
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| - | -Jen and Emma have a discussion about Patrick and love, while Angel demands that Cain take her to see the circus. Patrick and George approach the bank.
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| - | -Ella joins Emma and Jen while Trip decides to walk in the city to cool off.
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| - | -The carnies see Angel and believe Cain has captured her, influenced by the mysterious Madame Cheng. They cause her to dissapear and reappear in a box elsewhere in the cirucus. George fetches a disguise for Patrick while Angel encounters a cat infused with Cold One parts.
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| - | -It appears that the ringmaster is under control by Madame Cheng. Trip encounters Cain who is looking for Angel and the two begin to search together.
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| - | -George and Patrick finish their operation and return with the gold, while Angel meets a young Russian girl named Sonya. Trip and Cain question the Ringmaster, but get no reply. Sonya goes to them and tries to tell them of Angel, but is mysteriously pulled away.
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| - | -The ringmaster Boris gives Angel some food and she tries to break the hold on him. Elisha and Charles descend to a market near the circus to pick up food, while Ella confides her growing feelings to Elisha to Jen and Emma. Below, Madame Cheng punishes Sonya's sister due to her insubordination.
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| - | -Elisha runs into Trip and Cain below and sends Charles up to the Boheme with food. However, their intentions are overheard within the circus tent and a group of clowns are revealed to be Cold Ones and attack.
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| - | -The Eleventh Commodore, Pzemysł the Clown, attacks Elisha, Trip and Cain, using a swarm of Blackflies and his power of illusion. Cheng uses her mind control powers to incapacitate Elisha and Trip, leaving Cain alone.
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| - | -Boris, the ringmaster, attacks Madame Cheng, breaking her concentration and freeing Trip and Elisha. She angrily tosses him aside. Cain and Pzemysł duel, the clown recognizing Cain as Brian.
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| - | -Angel attacks Madame Cheng, while Pzemysł and Cain soar into the air. Angel cuts Cheng who flees, ordering her minions to capture Angel. Elisha knocks his rifle against the Deus heart, allowing him to hit and drive off Pzemysł. Though the clown flees, he leaves a beacon on the side of the Boheme, causing a swarm of Blackflies to attack it.
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| - | -Cain rescues Angel, while the Blackflies attack the Boheme to Patrick's dismay. George and Patrick scramble to save the Boheme.
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| - | -Sonya uses the circus carrier's steam engine to finish off the Cold Ones at the circus, while Patrick shields himself and lets George hang him off the side of the Boheme.
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| - | -As Charles and Ella hold off the Blackflies entering the cabins, Patrick disables the beacon, causing the Blackflies to fall apart onto the deck. Elisha, Trip, Cain, Angel and Sweets make their way back onto the Boheme.
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| - | -The crew catch their breath, clean the Blackflies off the deck and Emma gives Trip a warm welcome, Scraps being less inclined towards Sweets. George sees Trip with Emma and is upset again.
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| - | -The Tsar decides to use the Eight Commodore to destroy the crew of the Boheme. In the Crimea, the Eight Commodore, Aiman Tiamat, steals a Roma man from his fiancee, Perdita, using her ability to attract and enslave men with her beauty. Perdita arrives to kill Tiamat, but is swallowed whole by Tiamat's pet wyrm. Tiamat recieves her orders from the Tsar, noticing the similarity between Brian and Cain. She heads for Paris.
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| - | -On the Boheme, Jen cooks and serves dinner to the hungry crew, while Cain senses Tiamat's prescence. Elisha shows Patrick a recording device he took from a Blackfly and Patrick realizes that the Cold Ones have been monitoring them.
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| - | -The crew begins contemplating potential allies. Jen sends a message to the Italian Mafia under Papa Gianni. Patrick considers the Fleet of the Empire of the Rising Sun as well as the Madboys of Tinker's Row and Belfast. Elisha remembers airship squadrons he had fought with in the past. Emma decides to contact Anton Tulane and the French Aether League.
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| - | -The Boheme crosses the Alps as the crew prepares to land in Paris, considering ways to conceal the wounded Emma, the paling Jen and madboy Patrick from the suspicious and technophobic French authorities. The Boheme lands in Paris.
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| - | ==The Boheme in Paris==
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| - | -The crew of the Boheme make their way through Paris, guiding by Emma, made uneasy by the haughty inhabitants and the technophic sympathies around. Trip leave the group to visit an art store and move his purchases to the Boheme, while Charles leaves to visit friends.
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| - | -Emma bumps into Monsieur Anton Tulane at a book stall. Pretending to engage in idle chatter, Anton guides the crew back to his private quaters. He mentions having met a woman with the features of Patrick and his considerations of bringing the Aether League together.
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| - | -Tiamat arrives at the Russian embassey while Angel and Cain sneak off the Boheme and visit a sweet-shop.
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| - | -Patrick shows Anton the Deus. They decide that the best course of action would be to attack St. Petersburg through the sewers. Emma invites Anton back to the Boheme to be introduced to Cain and Angel. Cain and Angel are at the sweet-shop, where an Inquisitor spots them and reports the sighting to Tiamat.
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| - | -The crew returns to the Boheme with Anton to realize that Cain and Angel are gone. Patrick realizes he mentioned the sweet shop to them and the crew heads there to find them.
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| - | -Trip joins the running crew while Tiamat enters the sweet-shop. Using dozens of charmed men as a distraction, she drags Cain away upstairs. Elisha tails her, but is charmed and easily defeated, being blown out of the upper window.
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| - | -As Elisha hits the pavement, Ella and Jen rush to help him. At that moment, the Inquisitors arrive and arrest Anton, Elisha, Ella and Jen, taking them to the Inquisitor Fortress.
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| - | -Angel follows Tiamat upstairs only to see her forcefully embrace and kiss Cain. Crushed and confused, Angel is easily captured by the Inquisitors. The rest of the crew escape when Charles arrives and causes a distraction and Trip teleports them back to the Boheme.
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| - | -The guards take the weapons and equipment of the captured crew, while Patrick is devastated at the loss of Jen. Tiamat's dismissal of Angel begins to enrage Cain, while Emma and Trip plan to free the prisoners by using Trip's technology to disguise themselves as guards.
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| - | -Emma goes to the place of Locke Lefoot, a spider-armed guide to the Paris underworld and ask for help to guide them to the Inquisitor Fortress.
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| - | -With directions from the monkey Pierre and his crazed master, a Karl Marx, Patrick leads the crew to a rescue of Jen, robbing some inquisitors of their robes in the process. Meanwhile, Inquisitors attempt to torture Ella, being stopped by a stubborn Elisha.
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| - | -Patrick and Jen distract some guards, while others are rendered depressed and resistantless by the mournful song of Angel. The crew grab their stolen gear and rescue Angel, who is still depressed and in shock and has to be carried out by the crew.
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| - | -Tiamat has the Captain of her airship restrain Cain while she goes to stop the jailbreak personally. Cain is desperate to save Angel and breaks free, killing the captain, before chasing after Tiamat who has taken to the skies on her wyrm.
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| - | -The crew of the Boheme emerges into the square, but is confronted by a troop of Inquisitors. They commence battle, beating back the enemy. Patrick beats the head Inquisitor and manages to convince him of the goodness of technology with a sermon. The Inquisitors surrunder while Emma uses her powers to disable the Inquisitor fortress and free those inside.
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| - | -Tiamat arrives at the square as Cain catches up with her. She dispatches Cain, before using her powers to charm the male members of the crew. She decides to take some of them with her as slaves and let the wyrm drink the blood of the rest. She tells the women to leave, on pain of being devoured by the wyrm. Angel doesn't have to will to live or move and is drawn into the wyrm's gullet, but is saved by a swift intervention by Cain. The two reconcile and turn to face and destroy Tiamat together.
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| - | -George attacks Tiamat, breaking her charm, while Emma distracts the wyrm, allowing Cain to slay it. Cain and Angel destroy Tiamat's power with their holy weapons. The Roma, Perdita, who was devoured earlier by the wyrm, emerges from it's dead body and shoots Tiamat through her weakened black heart, finishing her. Tiamat dissolves into a pile of insubstantial slime, which Elisha burns away.
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| - | -All across Paris, the men that Tiamat had enslaved are freed. The Inquisitor fortress is raided by the police, the inventors freed and many Inquisitors give up their ways. A pleased Anton is introduced to a happy Cain and Angel.
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| - | -The crew prepares to leave for London with Anton. Jen purchases new clothes to cover her increasing paleness and changing body, while Patrick reassures her that he will love her forever.
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| - | -Anton shares some construct fairy tales with a delighted Angel. Cain then reads her stories while teaching her to read. Angel and Cain decide that they will write their own story, a pasttimes that entertains them they way to London, Cain writing and Angel illustrating a story similar to theirs.
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| - | -Jen and Patrick prepare the Russian tank Patrick aquired, which he has named St. George. They outfit it with propulsion jets and more weaponry, aiding in engineering by Emma. George and Elisha work to place the cloning factory they encountered last trip to London. Elisha takes the map to the Captain to discuss landing sites.
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| - | -Trip worries about possible illegal devices being discovered at his old lodgings in London, while Jen and Patrick work out the steering on the tank. Patrick lets slip humourous details of his past with Madame Arachne, his contact from before in London, earning not a little humiliation
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| - | -In the Ancient Temple, Nate awakens, having been healed in body, mind and soul by the temple's energies. He exits, being ordered by the temple to now aid Emma to redeem his sins.
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| - | -Jen and Patrick finish their work on the tank. Anton invites a shy Angel and Cain to visit the University, which the Boheme lands near, arriving back in London.
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| - | == The Boheme Returned to London Once Again ==
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| - | -Anton offers to show Cain and Angel the library at the University. Anton observes that Cain has real love for Angel, dispite being a construct.
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| - | -Patrick realizes that George could be connected to and control the St. George and mentions this to Emma, who passes it on to George. He agrees, eager for a chance to be at the front of the fighting and connects himself to the tank. George tells Emma to stay on the Boheme with Trip.
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| - | -Anton introduces the constructs to Caroline Smith, the head of the London Aether league, who is quite surprised to see her skepticism be proved false. The St. George descends into London while Trip goes to his apartment to take supplies and dispose of some highly illegal weaponry.
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| - | -Emma sees Trip leave and follows him, however loses him in the streets of London. She sees a poster for a play and recognizes the lead female as one of her old friends. She hears an odd tune that reminds her of a twisted version of Angel's. At this moment, Trip runs towards her. However, as soon as she embraces him, she is attacked by tentacles...
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| - | -Caroline Smith questions Anton, discovering that Angel is near twelve-thousand years old. He explains their complex workings and Cain relates how he was constructed by Patrick. Anton takes Cain and Angel outside to the conservatory to see the flowers.
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| - | -Emma has been captures by two commodores, the Actor, Abbot and the dark construct Shai, who was at one time a sister of Angel. Emma is saved by the intervention of the St. George. Shai escapes, leaving Abbot to fight Patrick, Jen, Emma and George. Emma and Patrick wound Abbot, wo retreats, allowing a horde of cold ones to attack.
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| - | -Emma and the St. George, fight off the Cold Ones, aided by sniper fire from Elisha. Elisha, on the roofs, accidently steps on Trip's escape hatch and falls into his apartment, while George comes to look. They discover Trip's hoard of illegal weaponry. George snaps and smashes the wall of the room, angrily berating Trip for putting Emma into so much danger over the voyage, only prevented by the crew from killing Trip.
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| - | -At the conservatory, Shai attacks Anton and Cain. Angel happily greets her sister, but is confused and horrified when her sister begins spewing the rhetoric of the Cold Ones. Cain fights Shai to protect Angel, while Angel does not know how to handle her turned sister. Angel reluctantly takes to the air to battle her once loved sister.
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| - | -George's rant is interrupted when a large, crab-like Cold One ambushes them, grabbing Emma and Patrick. Patrick shoots it to force it to let them go, but Emma and him are wounded falling to the pavement. Elisha fights the crab, leading it to the St. George, which crushes it. However, without it's shell the beast is just as dangerous, a super-fast spidery monstrosity.
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| - | -Jen manages to knock the beast to the street and begins to treat Emma and Patrick, while Trip rushes to help. Trip fires at the crab with one of his weapons, obliterating it and a good part of the street in a massive fireball.
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| - | -Angel and Cain are saved from Shai by the intervention of a winged and powerful Nate. They question him and reveal the change the temple wrought in him. He now refers to himself as "One". Cain and Angel decide to go with One to find the rest of the crew.
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| - | -Elisha encounters Ella, who had worridly followed them. They set off into the allys, followed by Trip, who pauses to burn his pile of illegal weapons. Patrick, Jen, Emma and the St. George head to Tinker's Row, to meet with Madame Arachne.
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| - | -Anton and Caroline activate the beacon for the aether league, warning all members of the coming fight. They travel to Madame Arachne's brothel to reunite with the rest of the crew, who have been doing chores for Arachne in exchange for information. Arache is angered to see Cain, who to her resembles Brian, while Elisha is startled to see Nate, who he assumed to be dead.
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| - | -Angel explains the nature of One to Elisha, while Cain reasons with Madame Arachne, who agrees to gather Tinker's Row to help storm the conversion plant and begins to outline a plan of attack.
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| - | -Patrick summons the engineers of Tinker's Row, giving a rousing speech. Angel plays with Cain on a swing in the brothel, attempting to cheer him up from the anger many show towards him for wearing Brain's face. Jen becomes frightened after she slowly changes towards a bright one and Patrick comforts her.
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| - | -Emma and Trip talk, Trip finally admiting the deeds he did before he met her. Emma is angry, but still loves Trip. While she doesn't trust him, she wants to give him a second chance. George sees this and is miserable, going outside. Is is captured by Shai, who uses him to access Emma and steal her spirit.
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| - | -Patrick leads the engineers to the lab while Angel and Cain persue Shai. In Russia, the Cold One Queen is using kept essence from Brian to recreate him. Elisha, along with Ella, leads a direct attack on the conversion lab, pretending to be the leader of the army, while Patrick, Madame Arachne and Jen sneak into the lab from the underground, horrified on finding a veritable butcher shop in the basement.
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| - | -Shai takes to the air to retrieve the body of Emma, who is slowly dying with the loss of her spirit, despite the best efforts of Trip and One. Angel and Cain try to catch up to Shai. Patrick releases George and the spirit of Emma, while Cain faces Shai. Elisha forces his way into the compound only to be confronted with a horde of Cold Ones.
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| - | -Abe walks the streets of London and senses the demonic prescense. He follows it, to see Shai force Cain to the ground. Abe intervenes, using his atlatl to send a dart hurtling at Shai, being surprised when this doesn't kill her outright. Abe clashes with Shai, then moves to escape. Trip runs with Emma's body, desperatly bringing it closer to her spirit.
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| - | -Cain manages to seriously harm Shai when she breaks her claw on his Deus heart. Patrick, Madame Arachne and Jen have to deal with an arrival of Cold Ones and Occultists. Elisha orders the tinkers and Ella to retreat, closing the upper building doors and sealing himself in. He outwits and fights the Cold Ones and Occultists inside, only to be nearly killed when Abbot arrives, believing Elisha to be Patrick, smashing him into the floor.
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| - | -George, Angel, One and Trip manage to save Emma from dying, placing her spirit back into her body in the square outside the lab, while holding off Cold Ones. To their joy, airships of the Aether League arrive to reinforce them.
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| - | -Patrick helps lead the charge out of the underground lab, using many of the constructs of Tinker's row. Cain finishes Shai, smashing her into one of the below tunnels and pinning her under wreckage. Despite her protests, he spares her life. Jen finishes the Cold Ones inside with a hot water pipe, while the Aether League, lead by George and One, finish the outside forces. Abbot is enraged by the failure of his forces, but is surprised to see that Elisha, his intended victim, has attached a timed heat rune to him, which ignites, obliterating Abbot.
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| - | -Patrick comforts Jen after the battle and they discuss the future. Elisha sees that the main door is blocked by rubble and descends into the tunnels to find and exit, ignoring the trapped Shai. A confused Abe returns to the square, meeting Emma and explains he must salt the demon. Cain has his damage repaired by Patrick and Jen.
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| - | -Madame Arachne gives Angel some dresses as a gift and celebrates the victory with Cain and Angel. George is sitting by the fountain in the square when he is accosted by his father, who he is surprised to see. He is further surprised when his father talks to him, explaining how he blamed Emma for George's "Death" and how he was the one that lead Black to Emma. George is angered and confused by this news, especially when he learns his mother is dying.
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| - | -Abe, Emma and Madame Arachne descend into the caverns below and locate Shai. Abe performs a ritual on her, hopefully cleansing her over time. Elisha wanders the tunnels, finally collapsing at the place where the diggers stopped. After a vision, he continues, being retrieved by One and waking up back on the Boheme.
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| - | -Cain tells Angel the story of Milo and Nala and the two embrace. Meanwhile, In Russia, the Cold One Queen uses her power to ressurect Brian O'Landry. Patrick hears Angel's song, mixed with Shai's and spends the night building a metallic shell to inhabit, should he be killed, so he can remain with Jen.
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| - | -Emma visit's George's parents that night. She in angry with George's father, but manages to deal with her anger and accept it. George sees his dying mother and decides to ask Jen to help save her.
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| - | -In the morning, Gelt leaves the Boheme. Elisha awakes and begins walking despite his injuries. Abe walks up with his pet snake, Rosie and makes his way to the Boheme, dropping off his bags before going to visit Madame Arachne, where Cain and Angel head as well. Emma finds Patrick asleep by his project. She continues his work to help him.
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| - | -In Russia, Viktor works to complete a variety of the Tsar's schemes. Shai and Arachne greet Abe, Angel and Cain, while Patrick awakes and goes to confessional at a church, with a mysterious priest. Angel is delighted to see her sister, while Shai is mostly annoyed at Angel's cheerfulness. Meanwhile, Dreyfuss walks the streets of London, looking for work.
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| - | -Angel and Cain take Shai out to shop in London. Elisha decides to go outside and get a drink, despite Ella's protests as she worries about his health. While Abe talks to Madame Arachne, Dreyfuss arrives outside Arachne's business. While being turned back, an Arbiter emerges in the street.
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| - | -Elisha, Dreyfuss and Abe all work together to beat back the Arbiter, which is finally deafeated on the arrival of Jen. Jen heals Elisha, then talks to George, who reveals his wish that she cure his mother. Dreyfuss has a tense introduction to Abe and to Abe's snake, Rosie. Elisha offers him a position on the Boheme. Dreyfuss introduces himself and accepts.
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| - | -Ella, Emma, Cain, Shai and Angel watch a play at Emma's old theatre. Angel is delighted and puts on her own play with Cain and an unwilling Shai. Meanwhile, Jen shakes Abe's hand and Abe feels the touch of his guide, the Mother, upon her. George and Jen go to see his mother.
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| - | -Jen, Patrick and George go to his parent's house. George's mother is deathly sick and Jen works to heal her, believing there to be poison in her veins. Patrick feels uneasy and goes to the cellar, to find the butler putting small amounts of mercury in the tea. The butler is revealed to be a Cold One and Patrick uses his technomancy to defeat it. Jen cures George's mother and George's father agrees to give them names of contacts in China.
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| - | -Cain and Angel go to a seedier part of London to buy a gift for Shai. Shai is actually touched that Angel bought her a present and says a tearful goodbye. Meanwhile, Dreyfuss and Abe get used to the Boheme, which includes an attack by a Cold One concealed as a cat. Soon, all the crew is returned and the Boheme lifts off.
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| - | -Meanwhile, in Russia, Viktor sends his nephew, Tobias, the Twelfth Commodore, to the East. The Tenth and Fourth Commodore prepare a trap in the pass the Boheme is likely to use. Thus, the Twelfth, Eleventh, Tenth, Ninth, Seventh and Fourth Commodores are all waiting at some location to delay the Boheme. Viktor starts project Endwinter, letting loose the corpse of Captain Black on St. Petersburg, complete with the aether virus, to infect all of St. Petersburg.
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| - | -Madame Cheng attemps to assult the crew of the Boheme with her mental powers, throwing them off balance and frightening them. Thankfully Jen manages to construct a ward against it, while Dreyfuss also shows some aptitude towards it. Captain Hudson and Elisha manage to get the Boheme back under control.
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| - | -The Boheme begins to make it's way through the mountains while recovering from the mental attack. However, two hell galleons, carrying the Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth Commodores begin bearing down on them, while strategicly placed anti-airship walkers below open fire. Elisha has Ella help him attach new limbs Patrick designed, to help him in the fight.
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| - | -The hell galleons attack, one latching onto the side of the Boheme, while another hovers overhead. Scraps turns into a mechanical wolf and helps Patrick fight the cultists. Elisha and Dreyfuss lead a charge in the hold, while Emma defends the ship and George messes with the enemy airship. Angel and Cain move through the Boheme to help, fighting a pack of Cold One cats.
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| - | -The two ships disconnect momentarily. Elisha is left on the galleon, while Dreyfuss falls to the close ground, his fall broken by a fallen brute. He dispatches the group of walkers below. Wyrms arrive, but Emma uses her powers to force them to the ground and take out more walkers. Brian arrives on the Boheme and Angel moves to intercept him.
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| - | -The hell galleon beside the Boheme reattaches itself. Elisha attempts to hold off the charge lead by the Twelfth Commodore, but is interrupted by the Eleventh Commodore, who is driven off by Sweets. On the ground, Dreyfuss, Cain and Angel fight Brian. Madame Cheng breaks into the steering room of the Boheme and uses her powers to make Hudson drive the Boheme towards the ground. The Twelfth Commodore corners Jen, Patrick, Abe and Scraps in the engine room.
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| - | -Elisha, Ella, Trip and George hold the deck, while Emma goes to rescue Hudson. Cheng controls Emma, but is foiled when Angel smashes into the steering room, carrying Cain and Dreyfuss. Cheng holds a dagger to George and takes the plans off him. However, Pzemysł takes the plans from her, intending to use them to gain favour with the Tsar. Cheng is attacked by the crew of the Boheme, Emma finishing her with her microwave gun.
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| - | -Abe drives Tobias off the Boheme. The galleon above begins to descend, but is destroyed by Ella with the shell launcher. The captain grasps the Boheme, but is slain by Cain and Angel, who finish the remaining forces. The Boheme continues, having survived the assult. Ella tends to the wounded while Aether League ships are contacted, which arrive with much needed supplies and repair crews. In Shanghai, The Tenth Commodore prepares his defenses, while meeting the enigmatic Seventh Commodore.
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| - | -Dreyfuss has a terse meeting with an old aquaintance of his. The crew has an uneasy night, plagued by doubts and foreboding dreams. In China, Cadens meets with his subordinates, including the Seventh Commodore and Jimmy, an old friend of Ella's. Angel teaches Cain how to use songs like her, while Emma and Dreyfuss try to design a radical new weapon. Patrick consoles Jen after a particularly bad vision. In London, Charles is torn when he recieves an order to persue the Boheme.
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| - | -As the Boheme heads to China, Angel and Cain attempt cooking, while Trip finishes Emma's raygun for her. As soon as the Boheme docks it is surrounded by police - however, they are distracted by Elisha while the Boheme takes off for a different dock, momentarily eluding the authorities. Elisha makes his way to the docks, often hampered by nearly everyone in Shanghai. Meanwhile, Rowland Elmstone, an Aether League member, asks and is granted permission to join the crew of the Boheme.
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| - | -The crew decides to head for the Aether League HQ in Shanghai, Rowland showing them the way. With a distraction from Dreyfuss, the crew manages to get into the Headquaters, where Elisha reunites with them. Not long after greeting Alexander Wong, head of the Shanghai Aether League, the Headquaters is attacked by an angry mob lead by Brian. The crew of the Boheme battle Brian while retreating. Angel and Cain remain behind to fight Brian in the middle of Shanghai. The rest of the crew escape through the headquarter's fleet room, only to find Cold Ones everywhere and all the airships filled with Captains.
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| - | -The crew escape the hanger, although Elisha and Ella are seperated. While Cain and Angel beat off Brian, the rest of the crew decides to attack Caden's mansion, with the help of Jen's Italian friends. Once they arrive at the mansion, the crew is trapped in a force-field that rapidly fills with toxic gas. Cain and Angel intervene and rescue them, George managing to rescusitate Emma. The crew beats a Cold One force and disables the mansion's forcefield.
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| - | -The crew finds the mansion apparently empty. However, Cadens is laying in wait and he attacks the crew ferociously. The crew unloads their weapons on Cadens, but he manages to repel their attacks, protected by an Aether Absorber and launches an attack with a number of Brutes. Cadens pins the crew down and begins to strangle Angel, attempting to get revenge at Cain. Cain snaps and pummels Cadens, letting a little of Brian loose. Finally, Dreyfuss attacks Cadens at close range, ramming his sabre into him and destroying his Aether Absorber. The resulting feedback incinerates Cadens. The Aether League moves in to mop up and the crew buries Cadens' remains. The crew briefly rests and takes what they can from plans found in the mansion, before taking the Boheme to find Ella and Elisha. Unknown to them, Jimmy has managed to stow away aboard the Boheme.
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| - | -While the crew fight Cadens, Ella and Elisha become surrounded in a square. The Cold Ones do not attack, instead seperating Ella from Elisha. The Seventh Commodore, Elijah, arrives, requesting a duel with Elisha and stating that Ella will die if he refused. Elisha and Elijah duel, but are evenly matched. The reason for this is revealed when Elisha knocks off Elijah's mask - to see his own face. It is revealed that the Seventh Commodore is a clone, made from his lost limbs retrieved by the Russians at the Yellow Fortress. They continue to fight and Elisha manages to outwit and kill Elijah. However, it is revealed that this was also accounted for. Elijah releases a parasite before he dies, infecting Elisha and beginning a transformation into the Seventh Commodore.
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| - | -Elisha decides to commit suicide rather than fall to the Queen. Ella desperatly pleads with him, eventually admiting her love for him. Elisha falls unconcious and is taken back to the Boheme by the crew.The crew has to perform surgery to remove the parasite, while Elisha struggles in his dreams. He is brought back and sewed up, but is severley weakened due to shock and blood loss. Meanwhile, word has come in of the results of project Endwinter, the undead Black spreading the Aether Virus across Western Russia, heading across Germany. Jen believes that she can stop the horde and decides to go there, accompanied by Patrick, Cain and Angel.
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| - | -Before they leave, Jen and Patrick are married in a ceremony carried out by Cain and Angel. Emma works on her devices with Trip, Dreyfuss and Hudson help steer the ship and Elisha begins to heal with the help of Ella. Meanwhile, Jimmy begins to crawl around the ventilation shafts, taking note of activities on the ship and relaying them to St. Petersburg.
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| | =Persons of Importance to the Current Plot= | | =Persons of Importance to the Current Plot= |
(Just to warn you this game is big and complicated. This summery is just a quick and dirty thing that needs to be updated.)
(This game is over, however the wiki entry has not been completed due to various reasons. The New Game, Realms of Aether, has started and can be joined by interested parties.)
Lord Woolsley, an elderly member of the British Secret Service with knowledge of the Creatures and their connection to Emma. (Deceased, killed by Captain Black before being able to directly aid Emma.)
The "Creatures" a mysterious race of aliens that has infiltrated our world, especially the nation of Russia, as well as certain divisions of the British Secret Service. (These are the known emergences of the creatures - the full scope of their power is a mystery. Know as The Cold Ones.)
